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Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates

The New Yorker: Fiction

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I Don't Think He's Complicated, Is It?

"I feel as though he tells us so clearly what he wants. He wants the sombe who loves him and is his sex slave, but also just has a wonderful kind of marriage with him," she says. "It's like an incredibly sophisticated genrapiece... And the genrapice is there to allow language to exist."

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